Developing higher order thinking skills

Abstract

University education is based on a set of graduate outcomes or educational principles of the university. The essence of a university education is higher order thinking. Learning outcomes are developed for each unit and the overall course to guide students in their learning. Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate that they have achieved the learning outcomes to a certain level or standard. The aim is to create opportunities for our students to develop higher order thinking skills, making these apparent to the students in the learning outcomes and allowing students to demonstrate these skills in a variety of assessment tasks at a predetermined standard.